Russian Doll President Vladimir Putin is a classical Russian political leaders nesting doll which appeared in late 80-s. This matrsyoshka describes modern Russian leaders with Russian president Vladimir Putin on the first doll and some leaders of the USSR. Here are painted leaders:

Putin,

Medvedev,

Eltsyn,

Gorbachov,

Brezhniev.

The nesting doll is painted by hand - pay your attention at it as during last years such nesting dolls are no hand-painted, artists use pictures which they fix on the blank form

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